Obs. Also 5 oumbrer, owmbrer(e, vmberere, 6–7 vmbriere, 7 umbrier. [app. a. AF. *umbrere, f. umbre shade, shadow; cf. obs. F. ombriere umbrella (Cotgr.).] The visor of a helmet.
a. 1400. Sir Perc., 678. For to see hyme with syghte, He putt his umbrere on highte.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 943. To þe creste of þe clyffe he clymbez one lofte; Keste upe hys vmbrere, and kenly he lukes.
1448–9. J. Metham, Wks. (1916), 37. At þe fyrst metyng Amoryus þis odyr gan smyght Vp-on hys vmbrere.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, VIII. xli. 338. Thenne sire Lamorak knelyd adoune, and vnlaced fyrst his vmberere, and thenne his owne.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., III. i. 42. But the braue Mayd would not disarmed bee, But onely vented vp her vmbriere. Ibid. (1596), IV. iv. 44. He … therewith smote him on his vmbriere.
1655. trans. Sorel’s Com. Hist. Francion, VII. 4. It was cloven in the middle, as if it were the Umbrier of some Troopers old Head-piece.
